The Scars Quotes

#1. I'm sorry. (Valerius) It's okay. We all have scars. I'm just lucky most of mine are on the outside. (Tabitha)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#2. My scars tell a story. They are a reminder of times when life tried to break me, but failed. They are markings of where the structure of my character was welded.

Steve Maraboli

#3. Hide the scars, let us pretend. If you burry deep enough, no one can find them.

S.L. Northey

#4. When we learn from experience, the scars of sin can lead us to restoration and a renewed intimacy with God.

Charles Stanley

#5. The only rules he wanted to remember were "never kiss a girl whose brothers have knife scars" and "never gamble without knowning a back way out

Robert Jordan

#6. The earth is, like our own skin, fated to carry the scars of ancient wounds.

Fernand Braudel

#7. Success demands a price that only a few are willing to pay ... blood, flesh, time, money, pride, heartbreak and energy. Anyone who has ever succeeded has the battle scars to prove the sacrifices they've made.

Toni Sorenson

#8. I thought of how proud he was when he took the marks- cutting the skin of his throat in a long slash and then packing it with ashes until keloid scars rose up.
He called it his second smile.

Holly Black

#9. A cave of scars!
ancient, archaic wallpaper
built up, layer on layer
from the earliest, dream-white
to yesterday's, a red-black scrawl
a red mouth slowly closing

Adrienne Rich

#10. A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobled by her scars.

Carly Simon

#11. When wounds are healed by love,
The scars are beautiful.

David Bowles

#12. Only a few hairline fractures around his eyes and lips spoke of the torment he'd been through. I wanted to smooth those lines away, and wished it was that easy to erase the scars of our past." ~ Muse, Drowning In The Dark #4 The Veil Series.

Pippa DaCosta

#13. Scars are the price which every believer pays for his loyalty to Christ.

William Hendriksen

#14. Life goes on but the scars remain.

Lil' Wayne

#15. Loving you is kissing the night, exposing the scars, words in flames, for every drop and for every life.

Gwen Calvo

#16. The wound made by hurting with fire will heal but the wound created by harsh words uttered using out tongue leaves an indelible scar.

Thiruvalluvar

#17. Anoint the saucepan with a touch of sunflower seed oil. Grease its scars, and as soon as the oils heats up, sprinkle with flour, pour on the bouillon and the moonshine strong as the hearts of the village man who knows not how to love with his words, only with his actions, and ass the chopped apple.

Vladimir Lorchenkov

#18. The wounds of the past and the scars of the present don't disfigure me in your eyes - because you know the price I pay for loving you ...

John Geddes

#19. I can handle scars, especially ones that are on the outside.
I understand his meaning from the depths of my heart.

Jessica Sorensen

#20. Young girls are like helpless children in the hands of amorous men, whatever is said to them is true and whatever manipulation on their bodies seems like love to them, sooner or later, they come back to their senses, but the scars are not dead inasmuch as her spoiler lives.

Michael Bassey

#21. One cannot fight for so long without the scars building on one's soul.

J.A. London

#22. My highway is unfeatured air, My consorts are the sleepless stars, And men my giant arms upbear My arms unstained and free from scars.

William Ellery Channing

#23. The tower loomed above them, growing, casting its cold shadow over them all as they drew closer. Tangled ropes of green ivy blanketed one side of the tower, blackened in places - carved deep into the mottled stone like scars.

Shona Moyce

#24. The marks that humans leave, are too often scars.

John Green

#25. The scars were not beautiful, but they were fascinating. They made him different. She liked different.

Jessica Clare

#26. D'ye ken that the only time I am without pain is in your bed, Sassenach? When I take ye, when I lie in your arms-my wounds are healed, then, my scars forgotten.

Diana Gabaldon

#27. It's called an inner voice for a reason. It's the gnawing feeling inside your stomach telling you yes or no. It's the one voice in your life that isn't tampered by other's biased opinions, scars, feelings or thoughts. Go with it, you know yourself better than anyone ever does.

Hope Alcocer

#28. Is it bad to like the way the scars look on my skin? Oh, the way they feel under my hands. My body's protecting itself, saying, "No, this barrier of scar tissue is to keep you out.

Taylor Rhodes

#29. It's easier to forget the past if nothing ever reminds you of those leathery old scars that can never again feel any loss or pain; the old wounds must be kept open if you are going to remember their cause and regret their occurrence.

Peter Robinson

#30. There's no bed in here. No threat that we'll do something we can't take back. Just two minutes we'll probably never have again...two minutes where we can both stop pretending the scars we can see are the only ones we have."

~Drake

Jennifer Turner

#31. Sarcasm helps me overcome the harshness of the reality we live, eases the pain of scars and makes people smile.

Mahmoud Darwish

#32. Domestic violence causes far more pain than the visible marks of bruises and scars. It is devastating to be abused by someone that you love and think loves you in return. It is estimated that approximately 3 million incidents of domestic violence are reported each year in the United States.

Dianne Feinstein

#33. Fighting and scars are part of a trader's overhead. But fighting is only useful when there's money at the end, and if I can get it without, so much the sweeter.

Isaac Asimov

#34. Scars are reminders of the obstacles we've overcome. Wear them proudly.

Ashton Kutcher

#35. All parents make mistakes. They're only human, so all of us grow up with at least a few invisible scars. But maybe that's okay, because the hard times are what make us strong enough to survive all the crap life throws at us down the road.

Alexa Land

#36. A voice said, Look me in the stars And tell me truly, men of earth, If all the soul-and-body scars Were not too much to pay for birth.

Robert Frost

#37. I used the physical scar of my breast cancer operation, the scar that I have across my chest as a metaphor for all kinds of scars.

Carly Simon

#38. The marks humans leave are to often scars

John Green

#39. She thought of the horse with his scars and wondered if having them so visible wasn't preferable to the hidden kind where nobody knew how to avoid the parts that still hurt.

Karen White

#40. You may forsake a person, a family, some location of the heart, but scars and memories cannot be discarded like used clothing.

Chris Fabry

#41. They say scars don't hurt, but that's a lie. I'm not sure what hurts worse - the ones you can see or the ones so far beneath that they'll never really heal.

Lily Paradis

#42. Misery is a scar on the soul, that if it begins in childhood, it lasts the whole lifetime. I understand that no two scars are alike, but I also ask myself; even if these scars are not alike, aren't these things engraved on our souls signed by which we know each other?Aren't we also alike?

Bahaa Taher

#43. Anything about anyone is attractive as long as they're the kind of person who can be attractive however that comes about. Including scars.

Kristen Ashley

#44. The scars are just something that happened to me. They aren't me. Not anymore.

Amy Engel

#45. Unexpressed grief leaves the deepest scars.

Marty Rubin

#46. Nobody wants to know about the nightmares or the riptide of memories constantly trying to drag me under. The world doesn't want to be forced to look at my scars.

Autumn Doughton

#47. He was going to have permanent scars in his palms in the shape of his finger nails if he wasn't careful. His hand was forgetting how to form any shape but a frustrated fist.

Kim Dare

#48. They're battle scars of a life lived and tangible evidence of her strength. She made another human being. The weight of that knowledge is heavy.

Eliza Lentzski

#49. Memories are the height of poetry only when they are memories of happiness. When they graze wounds over which scars have formed they become an aching pain.

Ivan Goncharov

#50. Our scars are a witness to the world. They are apart of our story. Healed wounds that are symbols that God has restored us.

Louie Giglio

#51. Beauty is not the flawless perfection of youth, but the fine lines, scars, and wisdom which only living can give you.

Reyna Pryde

#52. By the light," he said, when he had mastered himself. "I think that beats singing a lullaby to a stormdog for simplicity and economy, Maerad. But I wish I had known that you simply had to blow at Hulls to get rid of them. It would have saved me a few scars.

Alison Croggon

#53. I was sexually abused by my step father for years and years, and that caused scars you can't see. And we know many people have the kind of scars you can't see.

Bonnie St. John

#54. Luke doesn't see the scar on my face; perphaps he never did. He saw the scars on the inside. We were equally damaged, me and him.

Joanne Macgregor

#55. Sometimes it's the scars that remind you that you survived. Sometimes the scars tell you that you have healed.

Ashley D. Wallis

#56. Time may heal all wounds, but it does not erase the scars.

Jane Yolen

#57. I shake my head, but I can't change this. I can only bear the scars, as I have always done, as I ever do.

Ann Aguirre

#58. Perhaps reluctantly we come to acknowledge that there are also scars which mark the surface of our Earth-erosion, deforestation, the squandering of the world's mineral and ocean resources in order to fuel an insatiable consumption.

Pope Benedict XVI

#59. While the scars of the monstrous Civil War still remain, the wounds have closed since 1865, in large part, because of the civility of Grant and Lee.

Douglas Brinkley

#60. I spent my childhood being cut down to fit a space where I never belonged in the first place. I spent the rest of my life searching for someone to tell me what to do with the scars.

Marta Maranda

#61. It's the progressive left in this country that has viciously and systematically slimed female conservatives for their beliefs. We have the well-worn battle scars to prove it.

Michelle Malkin

#62. The First World War killed fewer victims than the Second World War, destroyed fewer buildings, and uprooted millions instead of tens of millions - but in many ways it left even deeper scars both on the mind and on the map of Europe. The old world never recovered from the shock.

Edmond Taylor

#63. How had she ever been so ignorant? How right that the body changed over time, becoming a gallery of scars, a canvas of experience, a testament to life and one's capacity to endure it

Janet Fitch

#64. Scar tissue - it's a new layer of tender skin, lightly covering the wound. Still a vulnerable spot, the slightest little knock might tear the skin so it bleeds and the remembered ache from the old wound intensifies the pain from the latest blow.

Jinat Rehana Begum

#65. New York, home of the vivisectors of the mind, and of the mentally vivisected still to be reassembled, of those who live intact, habitually wondering about their states of sanity, and home of those whose minds have been dead, bearing the scars of resurrection.

Muriel Spark

#66. Lou popped up often in his daydreams: her warm eyes, creamy skin, even her scars. Where were those from? Not many women could pull off the drunken-mess look, but Lou had been adorable and charming and a bit intoxicating. And the cake- he couldn't forget the smell of that coconut cake.

Amy E. Reichert

#67. Battle scars from the war of good versus evil have a unique beauty all their own.

P.C. Cast

#68. Each of us is the sum of our scars.

Matthew Woodring Stover

#69. But if a man truly loved you, he would see the beauty that lies much deeper than those scars.

Sarah Holman

#70. I live for a woman who scratches, just make sure to keep it on the back, baby, I dont like scars." ~Otto Carvalletti

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#71. Paper cuts are like battle scars for the academic ... I, on the other hand, am best friends with Wikipedia.

Kody Keplinger

#72. It is not the the bruises on the body that hurt. It is the wounds of the heart and the scars on the mind.

Aisha Mirza

#73. Scars do not bother me. They are the laurels of the survivor.

Patricia Briggs

#74. I have scars from every film I have made. There is nothing to protect actors. They treat you worse than a dog. You work like a slave, and you know, I like it. That is the way it should be. Every film should be like your last.

Golshifteh Farahani

#75. In the end, it's not gonna matter if you have a few scars, but it will matter if you didn't live.

Rich Mullins

#76. Nico was wrong. The Book of Fate isn't already written. It's written every day.
Some scars never heal.
Then again, some do.

Brad Meltzer

#77. Through the damp fabric of my coverall, bundled in my blanket, I feel naked. Raw. He sees more than I want, more than I can bear. It's like standing before him ... while he stares at my scars, pitiless and unmoved.

Ann Aguirre

#78. This man was hurt, damaged in some fundamental way. She saw it not in those scars upon his body but in the haunted expression in his eyes.

Emily March

#79. Humiliation scars deeper than the lash.

Tobsha Learner

#80. She kisses the shit out of me and I didn't care what I looked like after that.

Jackie Williams

#81. Falling in love is the most natural thing in the world. Everybody has been through it, everybody has scars, everybody wants to restart falling in love.

Gaspar Noe

#82. Polite conversationalists leave no mark save the scars upon the Earth that could have been prevented had they stood their ground.

David Brower

#83. Confidence is this: Wearing your triumphs with humility, and wearing your scars with pride. Many of us do precisely the opposite.

Umair Haque

#84. And If the surgeon is like a poet, then the scars you have made on countless bodies are like verses into the fashioning of which you have poured your soul.

Richard Selzer

#85. Scars are the proof you're stronger than what tried to hurt you, duckling. Don't be ashamed of them

August Clearwing

#86. Teach me your mood, O patient stars. Who climb each night, the ancient sky. leaving on space no shade, no scars, no trace of age, no fear to die.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#87. The contest is a lion fight. So chin up, put your shoulders back, walk proud, strut a little. Don't lick your wounds. Celebrate them. The scars you bear are the sign of a competitor. You're in a lion's fight. Just because you didn't win doesn't mean you don't know how to roar.

Richard Webber

#88. I don't regret my painful times, i bare my scars as if they were medals. I know that freedom has a high price, as high as that of slavery; the only difference is that you pay with pleasure and a smile, even when that that smile dimmed by tears

Paulo Coelho

#89. When I walk the streets I want to call to the spirits that are mine and know they will love me not only for my scars.

Luisa A. Igloria

#90. I am still trying to glue together the broken pieces of this person I love. He manages his tortured side with remarkable skill, but even Chris, with his endless supply of strength and clarity, could not survive all that he did without scars.

Jessica Park

#91. You might be adding a new scar to your collection, but it kind of matches the one on this side of your mouth, so at least they'll be symmetrical."
"I don't mind the scars." He shrugged, his eyes taking on a mischievous spark. "They hold better memories now than they used to.

Marissa Meyer

#92. Some of us can begin to heal the damage people have done to us by escaping the situation, but some of us need more than that. Tattoos make statements that need to be made. Or hide things that are no one's business. Your scars are battle wounds, but you don't see them that way. Yet.

Tammara Webber

#93. Well, I worked in a sheet metal factory once and scarred my wrist from the cuts. I found a sympathetic psychiatrist who told the draft board I was insane. We used the scars as proof of a suicide attempt.

Tom Verlaine

#94. Age's terms of peace, after the long interlude of war with life, have still to be concluded-Youth must keep decently away-so many old wounds may have to be unbound, and old scars pointed to with pride, to prove to ourselves we have been brave and noble.

Eugene O'Neill

#95. For you can grieve your heart out and in the end you are still where you were. All your grief hasn't changed a thing. What you have lost will not be returned to you. It will always be lost. You're only left with your scars to mark the void. All you can choose to do is go on or not.

Charles Frazier

#96. Alan had never been stabbed or shot or punctured or broken. Were scars the best evidence of living? If we have not survived something, and thus were certain that we'd lived, we could scar ourselves, couldn't we?

Dave Eggers

#97. The craggy lines that made up the character in his face now seemed like scars of defeat, inflicted on him over time.

R.D. Ronald

#98. A city isn't so unlike a person. They both have the marks to show they have many stories to tell. They see many faces. They tear things down and make new again.

Rasmenia Massoud

#99. Sometimes having courage means the hardest tasks fall onto your shoulders, and those leave the biggest scars.

C.J. Redwine

#100. The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What's left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.

Bertolt Brecht